In each of the 2 linguistic moods, there were 4 enabling relations, 4 strong causes, and 4 weak causes.
The aim of Experiments 1a and 1b was to examine the sorts of possibilities people think about when they understand causal conditionals about enabling relations.
Participants were asked to paraphrase causal conditionals with enabling relations, e.g., 'if the ignition key was turned the car started', and also causal conditionals with strong causal relations, e.g., 'if Joe cut his finger it bled', and weak causal relations, e.g., 'if the apples were ripe they fell off the tree'.
In the experiments we gave participants short stories that contained enabling relations, presented line by line on a computer screen:> We presented the conditional, 'if A then B' (in line 4) and we ensured that it was interpreted as an enabler by presenting it in the context of an additional requirement, C which had to occur for B (in line 2).
Alternative views exist about whether causes and enabling relations differ in terms of their meaning or logic, or in terms of characteristics such as normality, conversational relevance, constancy and covariation (e.g., Cheng & Novick, 1992; Einhorn & Hogarth, 1986; Hilton & Erb, 1996; Sloman, 2005; Turnbull & Slugoski, 1988).
To adjust for differences in age- or gender, we also provide specific score tables which enable relation of a patient to a reference population with same age and/or gender.
This presentation enables relations between each component to be readily seen, both horizontally within each role of an exchange, and vertically as the exchange unfolds in time.
As a workaround for the comparison, the process with the highest impact in each category was scaled to 100%, enabling the relation of the impacts of the different processes to each other to be shown.
This research studied the role of knowledge sharing between actors who perform collaborative functions and contribute to the triple helix (demand, supply, and enabling) in relation to the achievement of the MDGs 7-10.
